What the records say
- When
- 23 Dec 1987
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 79.82° N, 23.00° E
- Description
- explosion of a Soviet missile near a Finnair flight
- Deaths
- 0
- Injured
- 0
Finnair Flight 915
1987 alleged attempted missile attack over Norway
Finnair Flight 915 (AY915) was a scheduled flight by Finnair from Tokyo, Japan, over the North Pole to Helsinki, Finland, on 23 December 1987. In 2014, Finnish media reported a claim by two of the flight's pilots that the Soviet Union had fired a missile at the aircraft, which exploded less than 30 seconds before impact.
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